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In 1995, 31 wolves were released into Yellowstone National Park, and 35 were released along the Salmon River at Corn Creek on the eastern edge of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Central Idaho.
11 wrz 2020 · The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Wildlife Services in Idaho dispatched three female pups and two male pups by rifle north of Carey on May ...
27 sty 2022 · Other mortality includes wolves killed during, or after, preying on livestock, and wolf management done by Fish and Game to reduce pressure on elk herds, as well as natural mortality. Documented wolf mortality in Idaho over the last 5 years (2016 through 2020) has averaged 436 wolves annually.
4 mar 2007 · Today, officials estimate the Idaho wolf population at 375. B2 died next to a young bull elk, his final kill. George Kelly, the trapper ’He’s still got lots of relatives up here’
Since 1995, wolves have killed more than 982 cattle, 3,150 sheep, and 53 guard dogs, causing $1.6 million in damages and impacting 435 ranchers statewide. Smaller numbers of llamas, border collies, horses, goats and other animals have been killed by wolves as well.
Here, in The Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness nearly 20 years ago, the first reintroduced wolves in America leaped from portable kennels onto their historical home turf, returned by a federal government coming to terms with its misguided policy to hunt, poison and trap an ecologically crucial species to near-extinction.
Historical information on wolf distribution may be useful to future wolf management in Idaho. Current wolf densities following wolf réintroduction likely exceed historic wolf numbers in mountainous terrain of Idaho backcountry, due in part to sex bias harvest of ungulates since the 1970's.
